Answer:
The question is incomplete, The complete question with options should be;
When Sebastian wrote the contract with BP for over two billion dollars, he included targets for performance that had to be met before a payment would be released. Sebastian was trying to avoid ________bias.
A. overconfidence
B. escalation of commitment
C. sunk-cost
D. framing
E. hindsight
The answer is
B. Escalation of commitment
Explanation:
Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment regardless continues the behavior instead of changing the course.
It simply means the irrational behaviour of investing additional resources to a project that is failing.
These resources could be time, energy and money that an individual continue to invest into a falling and sinking venture or business
So, in this situation, before releasing the payment, Sebastian ensures that the targets should be met for the performance. He is avoiding the situation of escalation of commitment bias of him continuing to release or invest money into an already failing contract.
All that information gives you three points to make the graph.
Point 1:
At the price of $10, the offer is 2*1,000 shoes => (10, 2,000)
At the price of $25, the offer is 10*1,200 shoes => (25, 12,000)
At the price of $40, the offer is 10*1400 + 4*500 => (40, 16,000)
Then you have three points. You can check that their are not aligned because when you increase the price $15 from 10 to 25 the offer increases in 10,000 shoes; but when you increase the price $15 from 25 to 40, the offer increases 4,000.
To draw the grpah:
- use a perpendicular coordinate system with the price in the horizontal axis and the offer in the vertical axis,
- lable the horizontal axis with the prices from 10 to 50 and the vertical axis with the offers from 1,000 to 18,000.
- draw the three calculated points (10; 2,000) , (25; 12,000) and (40; 16,000)
- draw a curved line that passes through the three points.
Ther you have the graph.
Answer:
Average consumption will be higher at University A
Explanation:
In the given situation the fee of €500 will cater for food for the semester in University A. There is no limit stated but the average student eats 250kg.
This implies that there will be students that eat higher than 250kg here.
Since there is no limit to what they can eat, they eat as much as possible to maximise satisfaction.
In University B on the other hand there is maximum of 250kg covered by the fee of €500.
The average amount of food eaten will be below 250kg as all students eat either at or below the maximum amount
Given the data in the problem, we can calculate the cost of production for each bucket:
one bucket requires:
500 grams of plastic and one-half hour of direct labor.
The plastic costs $10.00 per 500 grams and the employees are paid $15.00 per hour.
Therefore, one bucket costs (material and labor):
$10.00 + $15.00 * (1/2 hour) = $17.50 per bucket plus (1.10 * $7.50) = $25.75
for 380 buckets :
$25.75 * 380 = $9785
This value only represents the cost of production of 380 buckets for the month of March. <span />
Answer:
Creamy Crisp's total revenues exceed its total costs, including a normal profit, by $366,000
Explanation:
Creamy Crisp's total revenue exceeds its total cost, including a normal profit by =
When answering this we use all the actual costs and revenue and all the hypothetical figures, or the opportunity costs and revenue as we need to calculate total revenue exceeding costs and normal profits.
Total revenue actual + potential = Entrepreneur's potential earnings as a salaried worker $50,000 + Annual revenue from operations $380,000 + Value of entrepreneur's talent in the next best entrepreneurial activity $80,000 + Entrepreneur's forgone interest on personal funds used to finance the business $6,000
= $516,000
Total costs = Payments to workers $120,000 + Utilities (electricity, water, disposal) costs $8,000 + Annual lease on building = $22,000
= $150,000
Creamy Crisp's total revenues exceed its total costs including a normal profit by $516,000 - $150,000 = $366,000
Since normal profit is included and not excluded normal profit shall not be computed separately and the final answer is $366,000
